"for a $200 bounty on dingos. Although the fence has helped reduce the loss of sheep to predators, the exclusion of dingoes has allowed for increased pasture competition from rabbits, kangaroos and emus. Sheep are being lost to increasing numbers of feral dogs. Dingo Fence The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a pest-exclusion fence that was built in Australia during the 1880s and finished in 1885, to keep dingoes out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent (where they had largely been exterminated) and protect the sheep flocks of southern Queensland. It is one of the longest"
"Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi The Long Wall of Quang Ngai (), Truong luy, or the Great Wall of Vietnam is a rampart extending from Vietnam's Quảng Ngãi Province in the north to Binh Dinh Province in the south. It is the longest monument in Southeast Asia. According to Đại Nam thực lục () and other archives from the reign of Emperor Đồng Khánh, the wall was constructed in 1819 by Lê Văn Duyệt, a high-ranking mandarin, under Emperor Gia Long early in the Nguyễn Dynasty. The wall is considered the ""greatest engineering feat"" of the Nguyễn Dynasty. Nguyen Tien"
"Afghanistan–Uzbekistan barrier The Uzbekistan–Afghanistan barrier is a border barrier, built by Uzbekistan along its 137-kilometres border with Afghanistan along the Amu Darya River. It is among the most heavily guarded borders in the world, second only to the border barrier between North and South Korea. It consists of a barbed wire fence and a second, taller, 380-volt electrified barbed-wire fence, land mines and a patrol of heavily armed Uzbek soldiers. It stretches along the entire Uzbek-Afghan frontier from Turkmenistan to Tajikistan. Days after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, when America announced the start of military operations against"
"Swiss villages of Zermatt and Grächen. Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge The Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge is the longest hanging bridge for pedestrian use in the world. It is located in Randa, Switzerland and replaced the defunct , which had been damaged by a rock slide. The bridge spans 494 meters (1621 feet), and upon its inauguration in July 2017 became the longest suspension bridge built for pedestrian travel. The bridge runs 85 metres (279 feet) above the ground at its highest point. It employs of cables, and has a system that prevents it from swinging. The bridge is part of"
"Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge The Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge is the longest hanging bridge for pedestrian use in the world. It is located in Randa, Switzerland and replaced the defunct , which had been damaged by a rock slide. The bridge spans 494 meters (1621 feet), and upon its inauguration in July 2017 became the longest suspension bridge built for pedestrian travel. The bridge runs 85 metres (279 feet) above the ground at its highest point. It employs of cables, and has a system that prevents it from swinging. The bridge is part of Europaweg, a hiking path between the"
"Tortilla Wall The Tortilla Wall is a term given to a 14-mile (22.5 kilometer) section of United States border fence between the Otay Mesa Border Crossing in San Diego, California and the Pacific Ocean. This ""San Diego wall"" was completed in the early 1990s. While there are other walls at various points along the border, the Tortilla Wall is the longest to date. No other wall sections have evolved distinct names, so ""The Tortilla Wall"" is often used to describe the entire set of walled defensive structures. The Tortilla Wall is marked with graffiti, crosses, photos, pictures and remembrances of"
"Walls of Ston The Walls of Ston are a series of defensive stone walls, originally more than long, that surrounded and protected the city of Ston, in Dalmatia, part of the Republic of Ragusa, in what is now southern Croatia. Their construction was begun in 1358. Today, it's the second longest perserved fotification system in the world. The Walls of Ston were known as the ""European wall of China"". Despite being well protected by massive city walls, the Republic of Ragusa used Pelješac to build another line of defence. At its narrowest point, just before it joins the mainland, a"
"Diyarbakır Fortress Diyarbakır Fortress, is a historical fortress in Sur, Diyarbakır, Turkey. It consists of an inner fortress and an outer fortress. The main gates of the fortress are: Dağ (Mountain) Gate, Urfa Gate, Mardin Gate and Yeni (New) Gate. The walls come from the old Roman city of Amida and were constructed in their present form in the mid-fourth century AD by the emperor Constantius II. They are the widest and longest complete defensive walls in the world after only the Great Wall of China (the Theodosian Walls for example are longer in length, but are not continuous) UNESCO"
"most ambitious and sophisticated frontier walls"" ever built in the world, and the most important of the Sassanian defense fortifications. It is long and wide, and features over 30 fortresses spaced at intervals of between . It is surpassed only by the Great Wall of China as the longest defensive wall in existence. Among archaeologists the wall is also known as ""The Red Snake"" because of the colour of its bricks. In Persian, it was popularized by the name ""Alexander Barrier"" ( ""Sadd-i-Iskandar"") or ""Alexander's Wall"", as Alexander the Great is thought by early Muslims to have passed through the"
"Saemangeum Seawall The Saemangeum Seawall, located on the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring . It runs between two headlands, and separates the Yellow Sea and the former Saemangeum estuary. In 1991, the South Korean government announced that a dyke would be constructed to link three headlands just south of the South Korean industrial port city of Gunsan, southwest of Seoul, to create of farmland and a freshwater reservoir. Since then, the government has spent nearly 2 trillion won ( billion USD) on construction of the dyke, with another 220 billion won ("
"17 June 2015, Viktor Orbán's Fidesz government (it is his third) announced the construction of a 175-kilometre-long fence along its southern border with Serbia. On 22 September 2015, the European Union's interior ministers meeting in the Justice and Home Affairs Council approved a plan to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers over two years from the frontline states Italy, Greece and Hungary to all other EU countries, while Hungary should have to accept 1,294 refugees from other member states. However Hungary voted against the relocation plan, as a result its 54,000 asylum seekers were not taken into consideration, that number relocated to"
"continues to encourage legal movement into the country. Zimbabwe was unconvinced, and the barrier remains a source of tension. The Ceuta border fence was erected in 1993 at the Morocco–Spain border at Ceuta, a city on the North African coast that is Spanish territory in order to block the entrance of illegal immigrants to Spain. The Melilla border fence stands at the Morocco–Spain border at Melilla, a city on the North African coast that is Spanish territory, in order to block the entrance of illegal immigrants to Spain. The Moroccan Wall is an approximately long structure, mostly a sand wall"
"Alfred Canning Alfred Wernam Canning (21 February 1860 – 22 May 1936) was a Western Australian government surveyor. Born at Campbellfield north of Melbourne, he started work in New South Wales as a cadet surveyor and in 1893 joined the Western Australian Department of Lands and Survey. In 1901 a royal commission resulted in Canning being commissioned to survey a route for a barrier fence across the State. Construction of the fence, known as the No. 1 Rabbit Proof Fence was completed in 1907. When completed it was the longest line of unbroken fence in the world. Canning is best"
"it has sensors which will notify the border controllers if touched. The fence stretches the entire distance between the Barents Sea and the Gulf of Finland and was built during the Cold War to keep in the population of the Soviet Union. It remains the only barbed-wire fence along a Russian border in Europe. Within lies the Border Security Zone which civilians are not permitted access to. Photography from one country into the other is only permitted if the pictures do not include military personnel and installations, that tripods are not used and not using longer than 200 mm lenses."
"side of the wall and an acrobat was blasted over the wall into the Border Field State Park in the U.S. He had his passport with him. Tortilla Wall The Tortilla Wall is a term given to a 14-mile (22.5 kilometer) section of United States border fence between the Otay Mesa Border Crossing in San Diego, California and the Pacific Ocean. This ""San Diego wall"" was completed in the early 1990s. While there are other walls at various points along the border, the Tortilla Wall is the longest to date. No other wall sections have evolved distinct names, so ""The"
"German Green Belt The German Green Belt (Grünes Band Deutschland in German) is a project of Bund Naturschutz (BUND), one of Germany's largest environmental groups. The project began in 1989 facing a forbidding, 870-mile (1,400 km) network of fences and guard towers once ran the length of Germany, separating East and West. Now, one of the world's most unusual nature reserves is being created along the old ""Death Strip,"" turning a monument to repression into a symbol of renewal. For decades, Germany's former border sector remained an inaccessible region. It is one of the great anomalies of Germany's division history"
"Three Countries Bridge The Three Countries Bridge (German: Dreiländerbrücke, French: La passerelle des Trois Pays) is an arch bridge which crosses the Rhine between the commune of Huningue (France) and Weil am Rhein (Germany), within the Basel (Switzerland) metropolitan area. It is the world's longest single-span bridge dedicated exclusively to carrying pedestrians and cyclists. Its overall length is and its main span is . Its name comes from the bridge's location between France, Germany and Switzerland (which is about distant). It was designed by the Franco-Austrian architect Dietmar Feichtinger. The first crossing at this place was built for Huningue Castle"
"the Great Dingo Fence in Australia, the world's longest fence. The company produces over 30 million Gripple wire joiners per year. Gripple A Gripple wire joiner is a device used to join and tension wire, to terminate and suspend wires and wire ropes, and also to support false ceilings, cable baskets, and similar items. They are manufactured in Sheffield, England by Gripple Ltd. The name derives from the fact the device both ""grips"" and ""pulls"" wire. Wire salesman Hugh Facey invented the original ""Gripple"" wire tensioner and joiner after a conversation in 1986 with a Welsh farmer. The first Gripple"
"the Taliban regime based in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan fortified the border fence in the province of Surkhandaria to stop any illegal migrants or refugees crossing the border. However, there is one bridge, the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge, that crosses the Amu Darya river and the barrier. Afghanistan–Uzbekistan barrier The Uzbekistan–Afghanistan barrier is a border barrier, built by Uzbekistan along its 137-kilometres border with Afghanistan along the Amu Darya River. It is among the most heavily guarded borders in the world, second only to the border barrier between North and South Korea. It consists of a barbed wire fence and a second, taller,"
"Great South Wall The Great South Wall () (also sometimes called the South Bull Wall), at the Port of Dublin, extends from the tip of the Poolbeg peninsula more than four kilometres out into Dublin Bay. It was the world's longest sea wall at the time of its construction and remains one of the longest in Europe. It faces the newer Bull Wall, and has one of a trio of port lighthouses at its end. Dublin Bay had a long-running problem with silting, notably at the mouth of the River Liffey, and held major sand banks, notably the North Bull"
"fence along parts of its border with Malaysia to keep Muslim militants and dual citizens from crossing Thailand's southern border with Malaysia. Turkey announced a plan in July 2015 to build an 800-km (500-mi) wall along its border with Syria. The UAE is building a security barrier along its border with Oman. In 1999 Uzbekistan began constructing a barbed wire fence to secure its border with Kyrgyzstan. In 2001 Uzbekistan fortified the fence with Afghanistan. In October 2015, during the European migrant crisis, Austrian interior minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner announced construction of up to long border barriers at several border crossings"
", the Russian border is the world's longest. Along the 20,139-kilometer land frontier, Russia has boundaries with 14 countries: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (via the Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China and North Korea. Approximately two-thirds of the frontier is bounded by seawater. Virtually all of the lengthy northern coast is well above the Arctic Circle; except for the port of Murmansk—which receives currents that are somewhat warmer than would be expected at that latitude, due to the effects of the Gulf Stream—that coast is locked in ice much of the"
"watch towers, night-vision cameras, and radar cameras and manned by 30,000 troops. Elsewhere in Europe, the Republic of Macedonia began erecting a fence on its border with Greece in November 2015. On the land border between Palestine and the portion of the Sinai peninsula adminitered by the African nation of Egypt, the latter began construction of a border barrier in 2009 prompted by concern that militant organisations were making use of the Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels to move weapons and personnel between Gaza and Egypt. In 2003, Botswana began building a 480 kilometre long electric fence along its border with"
"Ceuta border fence The Ceuta border fence forms part of the Morocco–Spain border at Ceuta, a city on the North African coast. Constructed by Spain, its purpose is to prevent smuggling and to stop migrants from entering Europe. Morocco objected to the construction of the barrier since it does not recognize Spanish sovereignty in Ceuta. Ceuta is an integral part of Spain, and therefore of the European Union; its border and its equivalent in Melilla are the only two land borders between the European Union and an African country. The fence consists of parallel 6 metre (20-foot) fences topped with"
"Gate of China, Nanjing The Gate of China (), is a gate and defensive complex on the city wall of Nanjing, China. It is the southern gate of Nanjing city. It is a renowned ancient city gate in China and the city gate with the most complex structure in the world. The city wall of Nanjing was built from 1360 to 1386 under the founder of the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang was crowned Emperor, and made Nanjing his capital. The southern and eastern sections of the old city wall from the Tang dynasty"
"barriers which separate countries and territories is 45. The term ""separation barrier"" has been applied to structures erected in Belfast, Homs, the West Bank, São Paulo, Cyprus, and along the Greece-Turkey border and the Mexico-United States border. In 2016, Julia Sonnenvend listed in her book ""Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event"" the concurrent separation barriers of Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), Limbang border (Brunei), the Kazakh-Uzbekistan barrier, Indian border fence with Bangladesh, United States separation barrier with Mexico, Saudi Arabian border fence with Iraq and Hungary's fence with Serbia. Several erected separation barriers are"
"from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts. Since the independence of India and Pakistan (see British India), the border has been a site of numerous conflicts and wars between each country, and is one of the most complex borders in the world. The border's total length is , according to the figures given by the PBS; it is also one of the most dangerous borders in the world, based on an article written in the ""Foreign Policy"" in 2011. It can be seen from space at night due to the 150,000 flood lights installed by India on about 50 thousand"
"El Ferdan Railway Bridge The El Ferdan Railway Bridge is a swing bridge that spans the western shipping lane of the Suez Canal near Ismailia, Egypt. It is the longest swing bridge in the world, with a span of . The bridge is no longer functional due to the expansion of the Suez Canal, as the parallel shipping lane completed in 2015 just east of the bridge lacks a structure spanning it. The first El Ferdan Railway Bridge over the Suez Canal was completed in April 1918 for the Palestine Military Railway. It was considered a hindrance to shipping so"
"Aizhai Bridge The Aizhai Bridge () is a suspension bridge on the G65 Baotou–Maoming Expressway near Jishou, Hunan, China. The bridge was built as part of an expressway from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to Changsha. The bridge is famous for the spectacular view it offers those crossing it. With a main span of and a deck height of , , it is the seventh-highest bridge in the world and the world's fifteenth-longest suspension bridge. Of the world's 400 or so highest bridges, none has a main span as long as Aizhai. It is also the world's highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel"
"the border exists between Sanlucar de Guadiana in Spain and Alcoutim in Portugal; it is the first and currently only zip line over an international border. Portugal–Spain border The Portugal–Spain border is the international boundary between Portugal and Spain. Referred to as ""la Raya"" in Spanish and ""A Raia"" in Portuguese (the stripe), the current demarcation is almost identical to that defined in 1297 by the Treaty of Alcañices. It is one of the oldest borders in the world. The Portugal–Spain border is 1,214 km (754 miles) long and considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union. The border"
"located along the Mainland China side of the border. China, in October 2006, is also building a security barrier along its border with North Korea to prevent illegal immigrants. Egypt began construction of a formidable barrier between Egypt and Gaza in 2009 prompted by concern that militant Islamist factions were making use of the Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels to move weapons and personnel between Gaza and Egypt. Since the mid-1990s, India has been involved in the construction of some of the lengthiest border barriers along its international borders. Six of the nine countries neighboring India are classified as Least Developed"
"crumbled down. Castelvecchio Bridge The Castel Vecchio Bridge (Italian: ""Ponte di Castel Vecchio"") or Scaliger Bridge (Italian: ""Ponte Scaligero"") is a fortified bridge in Verona, northern Italy, over the Adige River. The segmental arch bridge featured the world's largest span at the time of its construction (48.70 m). It was built (most likely in 1354-1356) by Cangrande II della Scala, to grant him a safe way of escape from the annexed eponymous castle in the event of a rebellion of the population against his tyrannic rule. The solidity of the construction allowed it to resist untouched until, in the late"
"Hartland Bridge The Hartland Bridge in Hartland, New Brunswick, is the world's longest covered bridge, at long. It crosses the Saint John River from Hartland to Somerville, New Brunswick, Canada. The framework consists of seven small Howe Truss bridges joined together on six piers. Before the bridge, the only way to cross the Saint John River was by ferry. Plans and specifications of the bridge began in 1898 and the bridge was constructed in 1901 by the Hartland Bridge Company. On May 13, 1901, Dr. Estey was the first person to cross the bridge before its scheduled opening, because he"